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Description: | Intermittent ms diary (73pp, March 1916 - June 1918 and January 1919 - February 1919) with brief entries recording his active service with the Royal Navy, including his journey by train and sea from Chatham to Taranto via Devonport, Gibraltar, Marseilles and Malta (March 1916 - April 1916), notably exchanging shots with a submarine (U-boat); after a brief stay in the battleship HMS LONDON (April 1916) his service, manning a searchlight, in the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES in the British Adriatic Squadron based on Taranto (April 1916 - March 1917); his return to Portsmouth and being paid off from HMS PRINCE OF WALES (March 1917 - April 1917); his return from leave and his draft to the cruiser HMS EURYALIS in the East Indies (April 1917 - July 1917); his journey across France and Italy to Taranto and then by sea to Alexandria to join HMS EURYALIS at Ismailia (July 1917 - August 1917); his journey in HMS EURYALIS through the Suez Canal to Aden and then Bombay (August 1917); his transfer to the cruiser HMS VENUS on the East Indies Station based at Colombo in Ceylon (October 1917 - May 1918), notably looking for a German raider and a U-boat (U 66); patrolling off Aden and Somaliland (May 1918 - June 1918); and the All-India cruise with Admiral Sir Ernest Gaunt (Commander-in-Chief East Indies) and his staff from Bombay (January 1919 - February 1919); and commenting on being inoculated; his duties; his off-duty entertainment; the weather; the suicide of a Marine; the blowing up of the Italian destroyer LEONARDO DA VINCI at Taranto (August 1916); patrol and escort duties; and a serious outburst of cholera in Bombay (January 1919).
Cataloguer SNR
Catalogue date 2006-07-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brett, A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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